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1987-07-02 SP 228 SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING JULY 2, 1987 3:30 P.M. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY DEPUTY TOWN CLERK, JEAN PURNER TOWN BOARD MEMBERS Frances Walter-Supervisor George Kurosaka-Councilman Stephen Borgos -Councilman Ronald Montesi -Councilman Betty Monahan -Councilman PRESS-WENU, GLENS FALLS POST STAR GUESTS-Mrs. Bowen, Attorney Lemery, Fire Marshal Bodenweiser SUPERVISOR WALTER-The first business of the meeting is a resolution of appreciation to Edith L. Bowman. RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION RESOLUTION NO. 200, Introduced by the entire Town Board WHEREAS, Edith L. Bowman, who will retire July 3rd. has served the Town of Queensbury since nineteen sixty-nine, and WHEREAS, Edith L. Bowman has been an asset to the Town through her superior contribution as clerk to assessors and building officials, and particularly for the last nine years as clerk of the Building and Code Enforcement Department, during a period of much transition and the Town's greatest activity, and WHEREAS, during her tenure as employee of the Town, Edith L. Bowman has provided valuable guidance to the building administration; she has been unfailingly gracious to the public and to fellow employees alike; she has been conscientious and meticulous in her work; she has given encouragement and support; and with her sense of humor and even disposition has been the "rudder" that provided stability during times of much change, and WHEREAS, Edith's contributions to her work, her relationships with fellow employees, and her contact with the public will be sorely missed. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board, on behalf of the residents of the Town of Queensbury, wishes to express its deepest appreciation to Edith L. Bowman as a valued employee and a cherished friend on the occasion of her retirement. With this Resolution, the Town Board extends warmest best wishes to Edith and her husband John Bowman for many satisfying years of well-earned leisure. Duly adopted by the following vote: AYES: Mr. Kurosaka, Mr. Borgos, Mr. Montesi, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent:None r.% RESOLUTION.ACCEPTING FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT- IRLAND PARK RESOLUTION NO. 201, Introduced by Mrs. Betty Monahan who moved for its adoption seconded by Mr. Ronald Montesi. WHERAS, a draft environment (DEIS) impact statement on the Hiland Park P.U.D. was accepted on March 31, 1987 by the Queensbury Town Board, and WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on April 28, 1987 in accordance with the State Environmental Quality Review Act and Article 15 of the Town of Queensbury Zoning Ordinance for the purpose 229 of obtaining public comment on he said DEIS, and WHEREAS, a proposed final environmental impact statement (FEIS) has been submitted for review by the Town Board. WHEREAS, supplemental information has been provided by Hiland Park Corporation with respect to archeological impacts and traffic impacts, and WHEREAS, the Town of Rueensbury and Hiland Park Corporation have negotiated a memorandum of understanding with respect to the provision and financing of water and sewer service for the project, and WHEREAS, The Environmental Design Partnership, the experts engaged by the Town of Rueensbury to review the SERRA documents, has recommended that the Town Board accept the FEIS and supplemental information as complete. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Rueensbury hereby accepts as a Final Environmental Impact Statement the proposed FEIS dated May 1987, submitted by Hiland Park Corporation; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the annexed Notice of Completion of Final EIS is hereby approved and adopted, and it is further RESOLVED, that copies of such Notice of Completion and FEIS shall be served in accordance with applicable SERRA regulations. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Kurosaka, Mr. Borgos, Mr. Montesi, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent: None SERRA - Notice of Completion of Final EIS - on file DISCUSSION BEFORE VOTE: SUPERVISOR WALTER-We received the FEIS several weeks ago and there was some question on several issues that the Board felt needed to be further addressed. The resolution relates to traffic, also a letter of understanding which deals with water and sewer service and the financing hereof as far as the project is concerned. I think that myself and in talking with some of the members of the Board, they feel on the strength of our consultants report that our Environmental Design has indicated as. a_ _result of the supplemental information submitted for the record under the EIS process, that we can recommend to the Town Board that a notice of completion be issued for the FEIS is submitted and supplemented. Asked for further discussion? COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-I see that Sue Bowen signed Gary Bowen's name, is there a resolution in the corporate minutes allowing you to do that? ATTORNEY LEMERY-I don't have a copy but it is in there. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-I have a feeling that perhaps this should be signed by Sue Bowen as an officer of the Corporation rather than her initialing Gary's signature, unless you have something in your corporate minutes books that permits you to do this. ATTORNEY LEMERY-Said Mrs. Bowen would sign with her own signature. Mr. Lemery asked Town Board if they still intended to keep the date set for them to walk the seventy acres given the town as a gift by Hiland Park. TOWN BOARD-Agreed it was on their calendar. SUPERVISOR WALTER-The Fire Marshal had written to the Board almost a month ago regarding a new car and he would like a consensus from the Board for him to have one so we can get a bid. MR. BODENWEISER-Stated that the car would be purchased in the amount budgeted. 230 COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Noted that the Fire Marshal did not have a two-way radio in his car and thought there should be one put there. MR. BODENWEISER-Said he only needed one, once or twice in eleven years so he didn't think it that necessary. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Noted that lots of times they would like to reach you. MR. BODENWEISER-Stated that when he hears his name he always responds and thought the money could be used elsewhere. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Said lets think about it, maybe they could find a used one somewhere. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Let the record show that there is a consensus of the Town Board to purch€-i a new car for Fire Marshal, Mr. Bodenweiser. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-I have had a number of complaints from people in Ward 1 about a gravel operation on Farm to Market Road...they say it is noisy, it is the opinion of some people that the operator is going beyond the limits. Stated that they should take a look at this and see if the person was doing this properly and take action if needed. At least resolve the complaints he has been getting. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Asked the Town Board is they would like a report from the Code Enforcement Department. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Yes, the Code Enforcement officer, and also the Building and Zoning Board because it relates to action that was taken by both Boards. Noted that she had done quite a lot of research on it and during their road tour she had pointed out the location to the Board Members and things seem to be getting worse instead of better. It has now been leased from the person who got the original permit, and I don't know if that is permissible or not and I understand there are two other operations in there and the stone crusher has moved, in it seems to be going by leaps and bounds...and the hours seem to be increasing. COUNCILMAN KUROSAKA-Asked if this is the so called land reclamation? COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Yes, they are taking the gravel out of there while reclaiming the _ land. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Suggested this get looked into at the earliest possible moment. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-I think it would be very well if they met with the Building Department and perhaps the Chairman of the Building and Planning and Zoning Boards. There is one other thing from the Mooring Post Marina, they circulated a petition in that area and what they are asking for is an additional 600 feet be added to the current northerly boundary of the no wake zone on Sandy Bay. In effect the petition is that the northerly line be changed from 1200 feet north of the southerly shore of Lake George Sandy Bay to 1800 feet north of the southerly shore of Lake George and Sandy Bay. This is something we should investigate and act on and then go on to tell the reasons, the dangers and the damage regarding the larger boats that are coming in. I would like to look into having a resolution drawn up to meet this requirement. COUNCILMAN MONTESI-Two years ago on a highway tour that we take, Paul Naylor had recommended a drainage rehab for Garrison Road and repaved...at the time we suggested to him that we take those dollars and use them in some other part of town for paving, simply because we would be tearing up that road to do the sewer project. Now we are faced with another situation, Garrison Road has curbs, Paul had put into the budget two years ago, scraping that old black top off and re-establishing the curbs and drainage and catch basins and repave the road...we have dug the center of the road up now and put the sewer lines in. The engineering firm that is doing the contract is going to pave the center section right now, give that about a month and a half of compaction and then come back and put an inch and half or two inches of black top on the road. We then supposedly will put in the budget what we took out two years ago, my thought is this...the primary work Paul has to do is drainage, we do have a capital reserve fund and I wonder if Paul has the time and we have the inclination to release some of those dollars to do drainage work on Garrison Road and then have that road paved for us by the Sewer District Company doing the project and the end results saving some dollars for the Town. COUNCILMAN KUROSAKA-It won't work Jyou are not going to get enough paving work from the sewer project to pave that road. COUNCILMAN MONTESI-My point is,do pursue this particular project or should we have them repave it and then in a month and a half tear it up. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Does Paul have time to go in and do the full amount of work he intended to do and then perhaps this is an alternative. SUPERVISOR WALTER-The answer is no. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-If Paul can do it, the whole scope of what he wanted to do, get a credit from the contractor for the amount of paving he is not going to have to do, take that off the contract and throw it into highway fund. SUPERVISOR WALTER-I think that the Board has got to seriously consider additional projects which are not budgeted for this year and I say that because we do have some expenses we have added and also very important one is the moratorium where we are looking for outside services, engineering for traffic studies, a Planning Consultant and those funds are not budgeted funds...we are trying to find them. We are getting up where we are outside of our budget and I do think, paving is expensive and if the Highway Superintendent wants to readjust some of his paving schedule, lets talk about that, but if he is looking for additional money, I've got to tell the Town Board it is going to be hard to find additional monies of that magnitude in the budget this year because of the other expenses. COUNCILMAN MONTESI-The original budgeted line item for scraping, repaving and doing the drainage work was $49,000.00 a year ago. I am assuming that this mile long road with an inch and a half we would probably get somewhere in an area of twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars credit from the contractor. We don't know that figure but the rest would be pretty much the drainage project and scraping away the old...My concern was overall letting you people having an overview of one street in town that has a situation and I wanted some direction. SUPERVISOR WALTER-I think we should look into it but I do think that we have got to try to switch some priorities rather than say take it out of the...I think there are some other roads that could possibly wait a year... COUNCILMAN KUROSAKA-Stated that he had another item that the Board should consider...in talking with the principals of West Mountain Village, they are going to formally ask for a scoping session. Right now they are about at the same status as Quaker Ridge...they really don't know what they have to address...The Planning Board is saying we don't know what you are going to do regarding density. I think they are talking scoping session very similar to what we had with Quaker Ridge and try to get our Consultants Environmental Design Partnership on board right at the beginning of this. SUPERVISOR WALTER-I met with Dick Roberts earlier this afternoon and putting together the agenda for 21st meeting for the Planning Board this month and West Mountain has requested to be on the agenda. I spoke with Mike Brandt and his representatives early on in the week and I related all this information to Dick Roberts relative to a scoping session which was approached me and Dick has indicated to me that that project has been before the Planning Board, it was tabled basically because they thought there was some items that needed to be addressed...density, and also the traffic which is specifically mentioned in the minutes and he said until those things were addressed the Planning Board felt there was no way that project could continue...and as far as he was concerned there was no project at all. COUNCILMAN KUROSAKA-They are in the same position Quaker Ridge was in and that is why we had a scoping session and I think they are going to request one. SUPERVISOR WALTER-I would wait for them to request it but you should know they are on the agenda for the Planning Board. Said also a scoping is a very good tool. 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